Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
by Sir Arthur Newsholme
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
First published in 1927, this book provides a complete study of the beginnings and early development of preventive medicine. It looks at the subject’s underlying principles and discusses the prominent writers of the past. Topics cover infection, plague, science and medicine, poverty and preventive medicine and the prevention of cholera, amongst others.
by Emily Hansen, Gary Easthope
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
In Western societies, 'lifestyle' as an explanation for health and illness has become increasingly popular.
Lifestyle in Medicine explores the ambiguity of the term 'lifestyle' and the way it is conceived and applied within medicine. Based on real doctor-patient consultations and in-depth interviews...
Best Practices for Environmental Health
Environmental Pollution, Protection, Quality and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
In a present where there are countless opportunities for the spread of exotic diseases, the expansion and creation of far more illness in our global population through globalization and rapid transportation, and the contamination of water, air and land, we find ourselves accountable. In this day and...
Mental Health Nursing
carving a path to practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Are you wondering if a career in Mental Health Nursing is right for you? If you are considering studying Mental Health Nursing or have already begun your course this book is the perfect tool to see if you have what it takes to be a Mental Health Nurse.
It will tell you what to expect in your...
Public Health and Welfare
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
The prevention and treatment of diseases is a primary concern for any nation in modern society. To maintain an effective public health system, procedures and infrastructure must be analyzed and enhanced accordingly. Public Health and Welfare: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
A work by health and development experts and professionals, this well-researched compilation traces the evolving and highly dynamic nature of HIV/AIDS and its unprecedented health and development threat in Asia. Three decades of HIV/AIDS in Asia studies how the region has responded to this epidemic...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Scientific evidence from different countries around the globe shows that those with low or inadequate health-related knowledge and skills include all ages, social, and economic backgrounds. The consequences of this inadequacy simultaneously affect individuals, healthcare systems, and society in many...
Health and Social Organization
Towards a Health Policy for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
There is widespread recognition that the most powerful determinants of health today are to be found in social, economic and cultural circumstances. These include: ecnomic growth, income distribution, consumption, work oganisation, unemployment and job insecurity, social and family structure, education...
Shaping health policy
Case study methods and analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
This collection examines the role that case-studies play in understanding and explaining British health policy. Overall, the chapters cover the key health policy literatures in terms of the policy process, analytical frameworks and some of the seminal moments of the NHS. They have been written by...
Alcohol, Tobacco and Obesity
Morality, mortality and the new public health
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Although drinking, smoking and obesity have attracted social and moral condemnation to varying degrees for more than two hundred years, over the past few decades they have come under intense attack from the field of public health as an 'unholy trinity' of lifestyle behaviours with apparently devastating...
Everyday Ethics
Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. Drawing on years of fieldwork in a community psychiatry outreach team, Brodwin traces the ethical dilemmas and everyday struggles of front line providers. On the street,...
Delivering personal health budgets
A guide to policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Personal health budgets are an important new tool to improve the lives of people living with long-term conditions and disabilities by giving them greater choice and control over their healthcare.This is the first step-by-step guide to their implementation. Using current evidence and best practice...
International Studies: Volume 2
Prevention and Treatment of Disease
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
First published in 1931, this book is the second of a three volume set which focuses on medical work, and in particular, public administration in relation to the prevention of disease. This volume focuses on the medical circumstances of Belgium, France, Italy, Jugo-Slavia, Hungary, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia....
Religion and Aging
An Anthology of the Poppele Papers
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Find solace and wise counsel in these classics of spiritual gerontology!
In these days, when so many people live beyond the Biblical threescore and ten, the spiritual questing and questioning of the aged demands a meaningful response from clergy, family members, and nursing home staff. The...